Apple Maps puts Dunedin airport in Octagon

If Apple Maps is to be believed, planes leaving Dunedin
International Airport should be taking off from the Octagon.

The misplacement of the airport is the latest in a long line
of errors found in the app, which has come in for heavy
criticism since it took over from Google Maps in the recently
released iOS 6 operating system, which runs on iPhones and
iPads.

This has seen a farm labelled as an airport, highways that
end in the middle of nowhere and towns in the wrong location.

Airport chief executive John McCall said he could see the
funny side of the mistake and thought it would be "pretty
obvious" to anyone looking at their iPhone that the airport
could not be in the centre of the city.

However, it was important people were given accurate
directions to the airport and he would ask a member of his
staff to try to sort the problem out today.

"I do know that we are in the right place when it comes to
Google Maps," he said.

Other errors in the app's New Zealand maps include Timaru
Airport marked in a Christchurch suburb and the centre of
Wanaka marked in a paddock beyond the town's golf course.

Dunedin, you're lucky the road through the Octogan is at
least on land. Here in Auckland where I catch the train to
work if I go all the way to Britomart station - the end of
the line according to Apple - I wiil need to pop up through
through the middle of the harbour then catch a ferry to get
back to land.

While the Apple satellite images are lower resolution, and
some information is wrong (my discovery was a Hard Rock Cafe
in St Clair) I still find it interesting to look at Google
Maps' images of pre-earthquake Christchurch which are
considerably less accurate (although much sharper) than the
Apple map.